Apposite criticism. Most worrying excerpt:
...these environments are also self-selecting. In other words, even when the people speaking loudest or most eloquently don’t intentionally discourage participation from people who are not like them / who may be uncomfortable with the terms of the discussion, entertaining ‘politically incorrect’ or potentially harmful ideas out loud, in public (so to speak) signals people who would be impacted by said ideas that they are not welcome.
Self-selection in LessWrong favors people who enjoy speaking dispassionately about sensitive issues, and disfavors people affected by those issues. We risk being an echo-chamber of people who aren’t hurt by the problems we discuss.
That said, I have no idea what could be done about it.
Confirmation the prophecy isn’t about Neville:
AND THE DARK LORD WILL MARK HIM AS HIS EQUAL